Research Guides @ Fordham: Caribbean Studies: Music Resources

Background Information

The Cambridge Companion to Caribbean Music by Nanette de Jong (Ed.)
Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Finding Articles in Music Databases

Music Periodicals Database (International Index to Music Periodicals)
Offers more than a million articles from 1874 to the present including both scholarly and popular content.

Resources for Listening to Caribbean Music

► Search for music in these databases by genre or artist:

Music and Dance Online - Access Ends 7/31/25
Catalog of multimedia music content to support the teaching and research of music across genres.

► Search for music in the Classic Library Catalog by artist through the author field:

Artist Biographies/Autobiographies

Women in Jamaican Music [electronic resource] by Heather Augustyn
McFarland and Company, 2020.
Passion and Pain : The Life of Hector Lavoe by Marc Shapiro
St. Martin's Griffin, 2007.
Call number [RH Stacks] ML420.L2625 S53 2007
Celia : My Life by Celia Cruz; Ana Cristina Reymundo
Rayo, 2004.
Call number [RH Stacks] ML420.C957 A3 2004

Selected Books

Jump Up! : Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City by Ray Allen
Oxford University Press, 2019.
Call number [RH Stacks] ML3477.8.N48 A55 2019
Stolen Time [electronic resource] : Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze
University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Caribbean Currents [electronic resource] : Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae (3rd ed.) by Peter Manuel; Michael Largey
Temple University Press, 2016.
Remixing Reggaetón [electronic resource] : The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico by Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Duke University Press, 2015.

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